Setting levels and stereo pans

The file I have here to mix is an instrumental track that I…created, called no time like the present, and right now nothing is mixed.…All the pans are set to center, so it's essentially a mono mix.…And all the levels are set at zero.…So the first thing I think we want to do is start reigning in some levels.…And some engineers might actually…start working with these input levels up at the top of the mixer.…

But I do know that I have my Guitar and base sounds dialed…in just the way I want them, and that they include some insert effects.…And so I really don't want to change the gain level,…the input signal level that I'm sending to those insert effects.…So, I know I'm kind of ball park with those input levels and…I just want to start down here. In the fader section.…So let's just hear a few seconds of this.…Okay, now those are some pretty beefy levels.…

Amazingly, I'm not clipping here, I don't see these very top lights lighting up.…But I'll also mention that I am…once again monitoring through the control room output.…

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10/31/2013

Learn how to make music with Reason, and bring the features of a professional recording studio right into your home. Matt Piper shows you how to get set up with Reason and then moves straight into making music: recording guitar, bass, and software instruments, as well as creating beats and sampling audio. He then demonstrates the tools used for editing, including quantization, pitch correction, time stretching, tempo, and time signature automation. Finally, you'll learn how to mix your track, and prep and export the mix for handing it off to a mastering engineer or for mastering it on your own.